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KILROY: BEEB HAS GIVEN IN Television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk says the BBC has "given way" to a lobby demanding his resignation. The Corporation has suspended his talk show while there is an investigation into anti-Arab comments in a newspaper report. Mr Kilroy-Silk said he had hoped the Corporation would have "kept the programme going and dealt with the criticisms". The 61-year-old caused a furore last week in his Sunday Express column by describing Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors". Speaking on Tonight with Trevor McDonald, on ITV1 tonight, Mr Kilroy-Silk admitted he was in a "difficult position". However, he...

An Open Letter to Sean Penn by Doc Farmer Mr. Penn, I'm currently suffering through your 4,117-word diatribe as published on page A-11 of the New York Times. It took some doing to find it, since I don't subscribe to that particular rag, but you were vain enough to publish it on your website (http://www.seanpenn.com/kilroy.pdf). As a writer, I understand that kind of vanity very well. It is a vanity we share. And I hope it is the only one. I understand you blew $125 grand to print this. Which should tell you about the quality of your writing. Hell,...